Adoringly known as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Television," Milton Berle began his career at the age of six with an uncredited role in The Perils of Pauline (1914). For eight decades Berle was a staple of radio, movies and television. With an unprecedented thirty-year contract with NBC, he began work on "The Milton Berle Show" in 1948. Also known as "The Texaco Star Theater," it was one of the most popular programs in early television and ran for nearly a decade.

Milton Berle with Peter Lawford and Carol Channing:It's the 1953 holiday season, and the ever-modest Miltie is planning a party in his own honor. Maxine hopes to snare him as her date, but Berle would rather pawn off his cloying secretary to Peter Lawford!